Coral restoration planning is underway in more and more US coral reef jurisdictions. Monitoring coral reef restoration is critical to capture quantitative data to evaluate restoration progress towards success and enable mid-course corrections as needed. R...

To aid conservation, restoration and efforts to protect coral reefs we produce updated projections of coral reef futures. We will use CMIP6 data to project coral bleaching globally at native model scale (markedly higher than before, 1/4º), produce maps, c...

Purpose/need: On October 2009, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to list 83 species of coral as either threatened or endangered under the U.S.Endangered Species Act (ESA). After...

This project continues to build on previous SocMon activities in FY17/18. These activities included capacity building and implementation of SocMon/SEM Pasifika data collection efforts. As well as the development and implementation of new indicators includ...

Climate change, in combination with local threats to coral reefs, presents unprecedented challenges to managers who struggle with how to address these issues. In many communications, managers clearly understand the impacts of climate change and the need t...

Climate change has become the greatest single threat to coral reefs globally. First documented in the early 1980s, mass coral bleaching has become one of climate change's most visible marine ecological impacts. Coral bleaching has become more extensive, f...

The CoRTAD quantifies thermal stress conditions on coral reefs around the world and in Version 5 spans 1982-2012. Using the Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST)-compliant Version 5.2 global AVHRR Pathfinder sea surface temperature (SST) climate data rec...